# Kreosotum

## Remedy Classification
- **Type:** Homeopathic Remedy
- **Miasm:** Emotional Miasm
- **Temperament:** Chilly
- **Aggravation Time:** Morning

## Keynote Indications
Source: Derived from beechwood creosote, a distillate of wood tar obtained from Fagus sylvatica. (European beech), prepared for homeopathic use through serial dilution and succussion to eliminate. toxicity and enhance therapeutic action. Traditional  Context:  Historically  employed  in  homeopathy  for  mucous  membrane,  dental,. gynecological,  urinary,  dermatological,  and  systemic  disorders,  particularly  those  involving. acrid, corrosive discharges, bleeding tendencies, and putrid odors. It is noted for symptoms such as. burning vaginal discharge, tooth decay, hematuria, and cachexia, often aggravated by cold, rest, or. menses, and ameliorated by warmth, motion, or warm applications. Modern Context: Indicated for mucous membrane conditions (e.g., vaginitis, stomatitis), dental. conditions (e.g.,  caries,  gingivitis),  gynecological  conditions (e.g.,  leucorrhea,  menorrhagia),. urinary  conditions (e.g.,  cystitis,  hematuria),  dermatological  conditions (e.g.,  eczema,. ulcerations), and systemic conditions (e.g., chronic fatigue, malignancy-related cachexia). It suits. patients with acute or chronic symptoms characterized by  acrid discharges ,  bleeding,  burning. pains, dental decay, or weakness, typically exacerbated by cold, rest, or menses, and often seen in. individuals  with  chronic  inflammatory  or  degenerative  conditions.  The  remedy  is  particularly. relevant for those with a chilly, debilitated constitution, often presenting with physical symptoms. like corrosive leucorrhea or bleeding gums alongside systemic symptoms like exhaustion or weight. loss, commonly observed in patients with bacterial vaginosis, periodontal disease, or malignancy-. associated cachexia triggered by infection, hormonal changes, or systemic decline.

## Modalities (Aggravations / Ameliorations)
Worse from: Cold (weather, air, drinks), rest, menses, night, exertion, cold damp weather,. eating, emotional stress, morning, scratching, lying down.

## Symptoms by System

### Mind
- Deep, nervous and mental derange ment, violent osci llation of symptoms.
- Ail ments from strong 
emotions.
- Stupefaction, dizziness and vacancy in head with complete loss of thought, sight and hearing.
- V 
anishing of thoughts.
- Stupid, forgetful.
- Cross, willful and obstinate.
- Peevish, fretful, irritable, especially during headache.
- Dissatisfied, with 
everything.
- Child wants everything but throws it away when given.
- Apprehensive.
- Starting from fright.
- Fear at 
 
 
the thought of sex in women.
- Fear of fasting.
- Shrieking in children during stool.
- Dwells on past disagreeable occurrences.
- Longs for death.
- Delusions, visions of fire, things seem taller.
- Says 
he is well when very sick.
- Sensitive.
- Music causes weeping and palpitations.
- Prostration and restlessness.
- Restlessness at night, after midnight, at 3 a.m.
- Children scream at night.
- Children 
would not sleep unless caressed and fondled.
- Child moans constantly or dozes with half open eyes, or is cross 
and sleepless during dentition.
- Restlessness before menses.
- Excitement before menses.
- W eak minded with 
suppressed menses.
- Deep, nervous and mental derange ment, violent osci llation of symptoms.
- Ail ments from strong 
emotions.
- Stupefaction, dizziness and vacancy in head with complete loss of thought, sight and hearing.
- V 
anishing of thoughts.
- Stupid, forgetful.
- Cross, willful and obstinate.
- Peevish, fretful, irritable, especially during headache.
- Dissatisfied, with 
everything.
- Child wants everything but throws it away when given.
- Apprehensive.
- Starting from fright.
- Fear at 
 
 
the thought of sex in women.
- Fear of fasting.
- Shrieking in children during stool.
- Dwells on past disagreeable occurrences.
- Longs for death.
- Delusions, visions of fire, things seem taller.
- Says 
he is well when very sick.
- Sensitive.
- Music causes weeping and palpitations.
- Prostration and restlessness.
- Restlessness at night, after midnight, at 3 a.m.
- Children scream at night.
- Children 
would not sleep unless caressed and fondled.
- Child moans constantly or dozes with half open eyes, or is cross 
and sleepless during dentition.
- Restlessness before menses.
- Excitement before menses.
- W eak minded with 
suppressed menses.

### Vertigo
- Vertigo on turning around quickly, with staggering.
- Vertigo in morning, in open air, passes off in a 
room.
- Must hold on to something.
- Vision - Confused, as when looking through a veil.
- Dim vision, as if something was floating before eyes, 
obliging to wipe them constantly.
- Dim vision during vomiting.
- COMMENTS - A remedy for decomposition of tissue or rotting away of flesh (Pyrog., Carb -an.).
- Discharges 
are brownish, yellow, and very offensive, a carrion -like odor, cadaver -like odor, putrid, like rotten flesh.
- Tendencies toward bacterial infections.
- Tendency to hemorrhage.
- Stomach and uterine cancers, gangrene, and injuries where the tissue decomposes and smells putrid.
- Breath 
or discharges that smell of rotting flesh.
- Cadaverous -smelling stools.
- Emaciation with deco mposition.
- History 
of use in typhoid.
- Intermittent fevers, marked periodicity.
- According to Grauvogl, Kreos.
- has a short period of action, one or two 
days.
- He noted the incompatibility in intermittents.
- Chin., which has a period of two to three weeks, may be 
given after Kreos., but not Kreos.
- after Chin.
- Marked burning and stitching pains.
- Lupus of nose with burning pains.
- Chronic pneumonia with pain like red -
hot coals in the chest.
- Pain and stiffness across hips and sacrum, at 7 a.m.
- sitting up in bed, continuing through 
the day.
- Knees give way and joints crack, particularly in the overweight.
- Guernsey noted that Kreos.
- particularly affects the inner temples, external ears and lobe of the ear.
- Chronic 
headache accompanied with great drowsiness, with moaning in their sleep.
- Intense itching.
- General sensitiveness to touch and contact.
- Large purulent blisters on concha of both ears 
with a red base like smallpox pustules.
- Small warts on the scalp after a headache.
- W.
- P.
- Wesselheft noted the 
indication of coarse, red, elevated acne pimples.
- Clarke used it for toothache cases where the teeth are decayed, especially if the gums are scorbutic.
- Foul 
breath.
- Useful for infections, abscesses and a bad taste after a pulled tooth.
- Teeth decay, fall out, with swollen 
gums that bleed easily (Staph., Merc.).
- Gums are dark red or blue and very painful.
- Pyorrhea.
- Nash noted the specific action on children, <K$e& 31ty dwimg dmitm.
- PawÁAl dentition.
- Useful for teeth that 
come in rotten and brown, then break.
- Teste observed that it acted well on infants in the cradle, particularly for 
congenital syphilis.
- Teste emphasized a discharge of fetid pus from the nostrils.
- Hoarseness is better by sneezing.
- Cough compels 
sitting up all night, causes involuntary urination.
- Eye symptoms alternate with drawing in the limbs.
- Incessant vomiting, due to stomach weak ness, inability to digest and rejection of a meal hours after it was 
eaten.
- Vomiting sweetish water during pregnancy, with pty - alism.
- Incessant vomiting with cadaverous stools 
in malignant disease of the stomach.
- Cholera infantum.
- Nocturnal bedwetting from too profound sleep, child cannot be awakened when taken up.
- Bedwetting when 
the urine smells foul, offensive (Benz-ac.).
- Prostate and bladder irritation during night.
- Frequently rises to pass 
very little urine, urine comes in a spray.
- Sudden, great urging, the patient cannot go quickly enough.
- Copious, 
pale urine.
- Complaints after menstruation or menopause.
- Foul smelling vaginitis where the chief complaint is the odor and 
not itching or burning.
- Guernsey notes the putrid leucorrhea, especially when it's fetid and exhausting.
- Discharge stains the clothing yellow or brown.
- Leucorrhea is better sitting, worse standing and walking.
- Foul 
and offensive lochia after childbirth.
- Sufferings from the non -appearance of menses, at menopause.
- General symptoms are worse after 
menstruation, during leucor- rhea, when yawning.
- Grauvogl cured with Kreos.
- 3x a young woman, 20, of suppression of menses with a concomitant state of 
imbecility.
- In another woman who had suppressed menses with tertian intermittent fever, the intermittent was cured with 
 
 
Chin-s.
- one grain four times a day and then Grauvogl, hearing for the first time of the suppression of the 
menses, gave Kreos.
- 3x with the result that the fever returned in full force.
- Quinine was again given and the fever again disappeared.
- Before the next period, as the patient was of the 
Nux-v.
- type, that remedy was given and the period was reestablished.
- Gentry recorded a case of a woman, 45, on visiting a  friend ill with dysentery, was struck by the odor, went 
home, commenced to vomit, and vomited all food or drink and continued without ceasing, vomiting or retching 
for three weeks, being fed by the rectum all the time.
- She was greatly emaciated and had to be held up by the 
nurse.
- One dose of Kreos.
- 200c was given.
- In twenty minutes the retching ceased.
- The patient fell asleep, had no 
more vomiting and rapidly recovered.
- Up to this time she had been under allopaths, who advised that 
homeopathy should be tried, as they could do no more.
- James H.
- Freer cured a woman, over 80, who suffered from incontinence of urine during bronchial attacks, 
which compelled her to keep to bed.
- Villers had reported a case of incontinence, worse when lying down, that was cured b y Kreos.
- This led Freer 
to the remedy, which rapidly cleared up the case, bronchitis and all.
- Freer also cured incontinence in a case 
of locomotor ataxia in a man, 74, with Kreos.
- 6c.
- An allopathic authority, Vladimir de Holstein of Paris, accidentally cured aggravated constipation in a chlorotic 
girl with 6 drop doses of Kreos., given in beer or milk.
- He gave it with the idea of “disinfecting” the intestines.
- Meredith cured with it a young woman, 17, of intense urethral scalding after urina tion.
- Cooper cured with Kreos.
- 30c a case of auditory vertigo in a patient with pegged teeth.
- No other medicine 
would touch the case.
- It is also frequently called for in acquired syphilis, especially in the skin manifestations.
- Kreos.
- cured at the same time constipation of ten to twelve days' duration.
- Harmar Smith cured a girl, 10, of very frequent and violent eructation, she was apparently healthy in other 
respects.
- Bell, and Puls, did no good.
- Arg-n., aggravated.
- Kreos.
- 2x at once did good and cured in a few days.

### Head
- Heaviness or pressure in various parts of head.
- Pressing outward in forehead.
- .
- Buzzing in head.
- Pulsation in forehead and vertex.
- Dull pain as from a boa rd pressing against the forehead.
- Occipital pain (Gels., Zinc -pic.).
- Headache with sleepiness.
- Severe headache before and during menses.
- Scalp sensitive, worse combing hair.
- Falling of hair.
- Heaviness or pressure in various parts of head.
- Pressing outward in forehead.
- .
- Buzzing in head.
- Pulsation in forehead and vertex.
- Dull pain as from a boa rd pressing against the forehead.
- Occipital pain (Gels., Zinc -pic.).
- Headache with sleepiness.
- Severe headache before and during menses.
- Scalp sensitive, worse combing hair.
- Falling of hair.

### Eyes
- Eyes sunken with blue rings around.
- Eyes protruding.
- Hot, acrid, smarting tears.
- Heat in eyes with 
ulceration.
- Burning heat with lachrymatio n, worse bright light.
- Salty lachrymation.
- Lids red and swollen.
- Agglutination of eyelids.
- Constant quiver ing of eyelids.
- Uncontrollable twitching.
- Intense itching of margins of 
eyelids.
- Suffering of eyes alternating with limbs.

### Ears
- Heat, burning, swelling and redness of left outer ear.
- Eruption around and pimples within.
- Itching in 
ears.
- Difficult hearing.
- Difficult hearing during menses, buzzing and roaring.
- Buzzing in head before 
menses.
- Sharp pain in ears.
- Humid tetter on ears.

### Face
- Sick, suffering exp ression.
- Face hot, cheeks red.
- Yellow pallor with red blotches during chill or heat.
- Burning pains, worse talking or exertion, better lying on affected side.
- Lips red, bleeding.
- Upper lip sore and 
cracked.
- Moistens lips frequently without being thirsty.
- Sc aly herpes on eyelids, cheeks and around mouth.
- Acne.
- Old looking children.

### Mouth
- Aphthae or salivation during pregnancy.
- Bitter, flat taste, low down in throat.
- Putrid odor.
- Tongue 
coated white, sometimes dry.
- Pus, bluish, spongy, bleeding gums.
- Very painful dentition, child will not sleep.
- Intolerable toothache during pregnancy.
- Lips red, bleeding.
- Nose - Offensive smell and discharge.
- Frequent sneezing in morning.
- Chronic catarrh of old people .
- Nasal 
secretion thick.
- Catarrh, fluent or dry, with much sneezing.
- Nasal catarrh, fluent, with acrid rawness in air -
passages.
- Nosebleed thin, bright red blood.
- Nosebleed with heavi ness and throbbing in forehead, with 
sleepiness.
- Lupus on nose and face, with burning (Ars.).
- Perspiration - Cold sweat, feels weak.
- Sweats with heat and redness of cheeks.
- Sweats after coughing.
- Scanty sweat, only during morning.

### Throat
- Putrid odor.
- Bitter taste when swal lowing food or drinking water.
- Burning pain with inflammation.
- Burning, chok ing sensation.
- Hoarseness with pain in larynx,  better sneezing.
- Scraping in throat with 
roughness and dryness.

### Chest
- Anxious feeling of heaviness and oppression in chest.
- Deep pain in chest.
- Sharp pain in chest, just 
over heart.
- Raw burning in chest, as if a hot coal.
- Sensation as if sternum were being crushed in.
- Constitutions - Dark complexion, slight, lean.
- Livid complexion, sad and irritable disposition.
- Old women with 
post-menopausal disease.
- Torpid, leuco -phlegmatic temperament.
- Old -looking children, hard to awaken.
- Blondes.
- Over grown, and poorly developed children with marasmus.
- Hemorrhagic diathesis.
- Cough - Cough, worse evening, with ef forts to vomit, with pain in chest.
- Dry, spasmodic cough in morning, 
causes retching.
- Cough after influenza (Erio.).
- Cough during dentition.
- Winter coughs of old people with heavy 
pressure on sternum.
- Fatiguing cough with old people, with copious sputa, thick, yellow or white.
- Cough with 
little sputum.
- Anxiety at heart with oppressed breathing.
- Sharp pain in heart region.
- Pulsation in all arteries when at 
 
 
rest.
- Pulse small, hard, slow.
- Pulse soft, weak, quick and trembling.
- Kidneys - Must hurry when desire comes to urinate.
- As if a lump pressing down on bladder.
- Hurried, 
involuntary urination when lying, on co ughing.
- Can urinate only when lying.
- Bedwetting in the first part of 
night.
- Frequent urination with copious urine during day.
- Diabetes.
- Drinks much but passes little at a time.
- Urine offensive.
- Urine chestnut brown, clouded, reddish.
- Urine with red or whit e sediment.
- Urine colorless.
- Violent itching of vulva and vagina, worse when urinating.
- Raw burning in lungs, pains and oppression.
- Sternum feels pressed in.
- Shortness of breath with 
sensation of heaviness in chest.
- Difficult breathing with anxiety.
- Gangrene of lungs.
- Copious, purulent 
expectoration, after every cough.
- Hemoptysis, periodic attacks.
- Black, coagulated blood expectorated.
- White 
mucus, easily detached.
- Neglected tuberculosis.
- Bronchitis with heavy pressure on sternum.
- Bronchial 
irritation during dentition.

### Stomach & Abdomen
- Stomach cancer.
- Coldness, like ice water, in the stomach.
- Soreness or burning in epigastric region, 
temporarily better eating.
- Painful hard spot.
- Bitter taste after swallowing water.
- Hot, frothy belchings.
- Belching 
and hiccough.
- Nausea, vomiting food several hours after eating.
- Seasickness.
- Nausea and vomiting before 
menses.
- Nausea during pregnancy, with constant inclination to vomit without doing so.
- Sympathetic vomiting.
- Vomiting sweetish water in the morning during pregnancy.
- Vomitingundigestedfood with uterine ulcer.
- Vomiting 
of large quantities of sour, acrid fluid or of white, foamy mucus.
- Hematemesis.
- Stools - Diarrhea, bloody, fetid, dark, brown, lienteric.
- Stools grayish or white, chopped.
- Very fetid, offensive, 
cadaverous-smelling stools.
- Bloody stools.
- Green stools during dentition.
- Teeth - Very painful dentition, child will not sleep .
- Pegged teeth.
- Black spots on teeth.
- Teeth dark and 
crumbly (Staph., Ant-c.).
- Very rapid decay of teeth  with spongy, bleeding gums.
- Toothache from decayed 
teeth.
- Intolerable toothache dur ing pregnancy.
- Gums puffy, bluish.
- Bleed ing of gums and nose, bloo d dark, 
quickly coagulating.
- Protruding gums infiltrated with dark watery fluid.
- Persistent oozing of dark, slightly 
coagulated blood after extraction of tooth.
- Temperature - Predominance of cold, tendency to shiver.
- Thirst after shiverings.
- Transient chill without thirst.
- Chilly while at rest.
- Chill with great bodily restlessness.
- Always feels chilly at menstrual period.
- Coldness of face and hands.
- Feverish sensation over whole body, with 
good appetite.
- Flushes of heat with circumscribed redness of the cheeks.
- Burning pain in bowels.
- Pres sure in region of spleen.
- Griping pain about navel before menses.
- Inflation and tension of abdomen.
- Contractive pain in abdomen.
- Shooting pain in abdomen.
- Pain, as from 
ulceration in abdomen, when breathing and moving.
- Painful sensation of coldness in abdomen with too scanty 
emission of urine.
- Violent abdominal cramps, worse in groins.
- Colic, resembling labor pains.
- Obstinate flatus 
in old abdominal disease.
- Tabes mesenterica.
- Loss of appetite, everything tastes bitter.
- Aversion to meat.
- Craving for smoked meat.
- Disgust of food 
during convalescence.
- Better warm food, worse cold food, fasting.

### Urinary & Genital
- Burning in genitals during sex from coming in contact with acrid va ginal discharge, penis swells next 
day.
- Prepuce, bluish black with hemorrhage and gangrene.
- Sexual desire too weak.
- Impotence during sex.
- Premenstrual syndrome with ir ritability, headache, nausea, etc.
- Before menses looks swollen as if 
pregnant.
- Menses too early, prolonged,, worse lifting, overexertion.
- Menstrual flow intermits (Puls.), ceases 
on sitting or walking, reappears on lying down.
- Profuse, lumpy menses.
- Discharge of clots of blood having 
a foul smell.
- Vaginitis.
- Yellow, acrid leucorrhea, smells like green corn, worse between periods.
- Offensive, 
corrosive leucorrhea, gushing like bloody water, staining the linen yellow.
- Milky leucorrhea following pain in 
coccyx.
- Leucorrhea during pregnancy.
- Vomiting of pregnancy with salivation.
- Lochia blackish, lumpy and 
very offensive.
- Hemorrhage after sex.
- Violent pain during sex, burning in parts, followed by discharge of dark 
blood the next day.
- Sharp pain in vagina.
- Burning and soreness in external and internal parts.
- Awful burning, 
as of red hot coal in pelvis.
- Corrosive itching within vulva, between labia and thighs, burning and swelling of 
labia.
- Scirrhus of vagina, painful to slight touch.
- Warty or cauliflower excrescences of cervix.
- Cancer, erosion 
of cervix.
- Uterine cancer.

### Extremities
- Skin on limbs dry and rough.
- Bruised pain in limbs.
- Paralytic sensa tion in limbs on waking.
- Boring 
pain in hip and knee joints, with sensation as if leg was too long when standing.
- Sharp pain in joints.
- Swelling 
of knee joints and wrists alternating with sensation of numbness and rigidity of limbs.
- Pain in left thumb as if 
sprained.
- Burning in soles.
- Ecchymosis, dorsal surface of fingers and hands eczematous.
- So re scapulae.
- Liver - Shooting and pressive pains in hepatic region.
- Sensation of fullness and pain as from contusion in liver.

### Neck & Back
- Great debility with backache.
- Sharp pain from small of back.
- Burning in sacrum.
- Scapulae as if bruised.
- Dragging pain in back extending to genitals and down the thighs.
- Sensation as if everything would come out 
(in women), with urging to stool and urination, with leucorrhea.
- Burning in back before menses.
- Glands of neck 
swollen.
- Breasts - Sharp pain in breasts.
- Dwindling of breasts with small, hard, painful lumps.
- Breast cancer with hard, 
bluish red, and covered with little, scurfy protuberances.

### Skin
- Chronic  fatigue  or  weakness,  with  a  sensation  of  prostration  or  emaciation,.
- resembling chronic fatigue syndrome or malignancy-related cachexia, worse with.
- cold, exertion, or rest.
- Weight  loss  or  wasting,  with  a  tendency  to  aggravation  in  systemic  decline,.
- resembling cancer-related cachexia, aggravated by cold, night, or emotional stress.
- Low-grade fever or chilliness, with a sensation of shivering, resembling systemic.
- inflammatory response syndrome, worse with cold or rest.
- Tendency  to  systemic  debilitation,  with  aggravation  in  fatigued  or  degenerative.
- states.

### Sleep
- Great desire to sleep, with frequent yawning.
- Sleeplessness, worse before midnight.
- Children would 
not sleep unless caressed and fondled.
- Starting, when scarcely fallen asleep.
- Disturbed, restlessness of the 
whole body or sensation of fatigue and pains in all limbs.
- Tosses about without any apparent cause.
- Laughing 
during sleep.
- Child very difficult to waken out of sleep.
- Anxious dreams of pursuit, fire, falling from a height, 
being poisoned.
- Dreams of urinating, erections.

### Generalities
- As if a board was across forehead.
- As if brain would force through forehead.
- As if something 
floating before eyes.
- As if a hard twisted ball was lying in umbilical region, burning as of hot ■ coals deep in 
pelvis, as if small of back would break.
- As if scapula and other parts bruised.
- As if tendon of elbow joint too 
short.
- As if hip dislocated, as if leg too long when standing.